Technical Manager Jobs

Technical Manager
UK

The median Technical Manager salary in the UK is £60,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 20 June 2025.

The table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 406 353 556
Rank change year-on-year -53 +203 -16
Permanent jobs requiring a Technical Manager 357 811 419
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.64% 0.73% 0.46%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.71% 0.77% 0.50%
Number of salaries quoted 139 630 329
10th Percentile £32,500 £41,175 £46,250
25th Percentile £48,750 £46,250 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% -15.38% -
75th Percentile £74,445 £65,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £111,500 £80,000 £96,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £50,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +10.00% -16.67% +4.80%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
UK

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of permanent jobs in our overall sample.

Permanent vacancies in the UK with a recognized job title 50,489 105,891 83,410
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 89.83% 94.82% 91.16%
Number of salaries quoted 26,690 74,857 54,406
10th Percentile £27,500 £28,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,754 £38,734 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £52,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% -12.50% -
75th Percentile £73,750 £70,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £90,000 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,055 £50,000 £53,500
% change year-on-year +0.11% -6.54% +7.00%

Technical Manager
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings that featured Technical Manager in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Technical Manager in the UK

Technical Manager
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Technical Manager.

Salary trend for Technical Manager in the UK

Technical Manager
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Technical Manager over the 6 months to 20 June 2025.

Salary histogram for Technical Manager in the UK

Technical Manager
Top 16 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Technical Manager within the UK over the 6 months to 20 June 2025. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England -51 336 £60,000 +9.09% 1,248
UK excluding London -25 269 £55,000 +10.00% 669
North of England +74 168 £55,000 +10.00% 167
Yorkshire +120 143 £65,000 +36.84% 61
London 0 67 £85,000 +21.89% 632
Work from Home +19 61 £65,000 +13.04% 548
South East -12 45 £52,500 - 196
North West -45 23 £55,000 +10.00% 98
East of England +8 22 £45,000 -10.00% 85
South West +60 16 £57,500 +15.00% 63
Midlands -17 16 £65,000 +30.00% 101
West Midlands -8 9 £65,000 +30.00% 62
East Midlands +29 6 £60,000 +26.32% 38
Scotland +104 3 £95,000 +111.11% 30
North East +40 1 £65,000 +18.18% 8
Wales +29 1 £71,500 +16.73% 18

Technical Manager Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities

For the 6 months to 20 June 2025, Technical Manager job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads featuring Technical Manager in the job title.

1 213 (59.66%) Social Skills
2 198 (55.46%) Degree
3 168 (47.06%) Continuous Improvement
4 154 (43.14%) Mathematics
5 151 (42.30%) Physics
6 150 (42.02%) Manufacturing
7 141 (39.50%) Marketing
8 140 (39.22%) Electronics
9 137 (38.38%) Presentation Skills
10 60 (16.81%) Problem-Solving
11 54 (15.13%) Project Management
12 51 (14.29%) Finance
13 46 (12.89%) Agile
14 42 (11.76%) Stakeholder Management
15 37 (10.36%) Project Delivery
16 34 (9.52%) Azure
17 29 (8.12%) Python
18 28 (7.84%) Microsoft
19 24 (6.72%) Banking
19 24 (6.72%) Risk Management
19 24 (6.72%) Decision-Making
20 23 (6.44%) Computer Science Degree
20 23 (6.44%) Analytical Skills
20 23 (6.44%) JIRA
21 22 (6.16%) Computer Science
22 21 (5.88%) Service Delivery
23 19 (5.32%) AWS
23 19 (5.32%) Product Strategy
24 18 (5.04%) CI/CD
24 18 (5.04%) Confluence

Technical Manager Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 18 (5.04%) Confluence
2 6 (1.68%) CMS
3 3 (0.84%) Apache Solr
3 3 (0.84%) Kentico
4 2 (0.56%) Mule
5 1 (0.28%) SAS
Applications
1 13 (3.64%) Microsoft Project
2 6 (1.68%) Microsoft Excel
2 6 (1.68%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 2 (0.56%) MS Visio
4 1 (0.28%) Adobe XD
Business Applications
1 4 (1.12%) Dynamics CRM
1 4 (1.12%) NetSuite
2 3 (0.84%) C-CURE
3 2 (0.56%) Oracle EBS
3 2 (0.56%) Oracle ERP
4 1 (0.28%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
Cloud Services
1 34 (9.52%) Azure
2 19 (5.32%) AWS
3 17 (4.76%) SaaS
4 12 (3.36%) GCP
5 7 (1.96%) Microsoft 365
6 5 (1.40%) Cloud Computing
6 5 (1.40%) GitHub
6 5 (1.40%) PaaS
7 4 (1.12%) Azure DevOps
8 3 (0.84%) BigCommerce
8 3 (0.84%) ClickUp
8 3 (0.84%) Cloudflare
8 3 (0.84%) Entra ID
8 3 (0.84%) Kontent
8 3 (0.84%) Storyblok
9 2 (0.56%) Azure Functions
9 2 (0.56%) Azure Key Vault
9 2 (0.56%) Azure Logic Apps
9 2 (0.56%) Dynamics 365
9 2 (0.56%) Google Sheets
Communications & Networking
1 5 (1.40%) Firewall
1 5 (1.40%) HTTP
2 4 (1.12%) Network Security
3 3 (0.84%) Cisco Firepower
4 2 (0.56%) Intrusion Detection
4 2 (0.56%) MQTT
4 2 (0.56%) TCP/IP
4 2 (0.56%) VoIP
4 2 (0.56%) Wi-Fi
5 1 (0.28%) Bluetooth
5 1 (0.28%) DHCP
5 1 (0.28%) DNS
5 1 (0.28%) Ethernet
5 1 (0.28%) Internet
5 1 (0.28%) IP Telephony
5 1 (0.28%) LAN
5 1 (0.28%) PBX
5 1 (0.28%) VPN
5 1 (0.28%) WAN
5 1 (0.28%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (1.68%) Data Warehouse
1 6 (1.68%) Electronic Patient Records
2 5 (1.40%) Data Lake
2 5 (1.40%) NoSQL
3 3 (0.84%) Elasticsearch
3 3 (0.84%) MySQL
4 2 (0.56%) SQL Server
5 1 (0.28%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 23 (6.44%) JIRA
2 3 (0.84%) Git
3 2 (0.56%) Jenkins
3 2 (0.56%) MSI
General
1 213 (59.66%) Social Skills
2 150 (42.02%) Manufacturing
3 141 (39.50%) Marketing
4 140 (39.22%) Electronics
5 137 (38.38%) Presentation Skills
6 51 (14.29%) Finance
7 24 (6.72%) Banking
8 23 (6.44%) Analytical Skills
9 17 (4.76%) Retail
10 16 (4.48%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 12 (3.36%) Automotive
12 11 (3.08%) Law
13 10 (2.80%) Telecoms
14 9 (2.52%) Organisational Skills
15 8 (2.24%) Health Technology
16 6 (1.68%) Legal
17 5 (1.40%) Advertising
17 5 (1.40%) Aerospace
18 3 (0.84%) German Language
18 3 (0.84%) Investment Banking
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (1.68%) JSON
2 5 (1.40%) Pandas
2 5 (1.40%) Puppeteer
2 5 (1.40%) Scrapy
3 3 (0.84%) Spring
3 3 (0.84%) Spring Boot
4 2 (0.56%) .NET
4 2 (0.56%) Hibernate
4 2 (0.56%) React
5 1 (0.28%) ADO
5 1 (0.28%) Flutter
5 1 (0.28%) HTML
5 1 (0.28%) Laravel
5 1 (0.28%) Middleware
5 1 (0.28%) Ruby on Rails
Miscellaneous
1 8 (2.24%) Data Centre
2 7 (1.96%) Onboarding
3 6 (1.68%) Digital Signage
3 6 (1.68%) Self-Motivation
4 5 (1.40%) CCTV
4 5 (1.40%) Driving Licence
4 5 (1.40%) Linux Command Line
4 5 (1.40%) Management Information System
4 5 (1.40%) Public Cloud
4 5 (1.40%) Renewable Energy
5 4 (1.12%) NHS
5 4 (1.12%) Product Ownership
5 4 (1.12%) Reinsurance
5 4 (1.12%) Virtual Team
6 3 (0.84%) CMDB
6 3 (0.84%) Cyber Defence
6 3 (0.84%) Embedded Systems
7 2 (0.56%) FMCG
7 2 (0.56%) Mobile App
7 2 (0.56%) Smart Meter
Operating Systems
1 12 (3.36%) Windows
2 8 (2.24%) Linux
3 5 (1.40%) Windows Server
4 2 (0.56%) Android
4 2 (0.56%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 168 (47.06%) Continuous Improvement
2 154 (43.14%) Mathematics
3 151 (42.30%) Physics
4 60 (16.81%) Problem-Solving
5 54 (15.13%) Project Management
6 46 (12.89%) Agile
7 42 (11.76%) Stakeholder Management
8 37 (10.36%) Project Delivery
9 24 (6.72%) Decision-Making
9 24 (6.72%) Risk Management
10 22 (6.16%) Computer Science
11 21 (5.88%) Service Delivery
12 19 (5.32%) Product Strategy
13 18 (5.04%) CI/CD
13 18 (5.04%) Programme Management
14 17 (4.76%) Cybersecurity
15 16 (4.48%) Artificial Intelligence
15 16 (4.48%) Coaching
15 16 (4.48%) Resource Allocation
16 15 (4.20%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 29 (8.12%) Python
2 14 (3.92%) Java
3 13 (3.64%) JavaScript
4 9 (2.52%) SQL
5 6 (1.68%) R
6 3 (0.84%) C
6 3 (0.84%) C#
7 2 (0.56%) PHP
8 1 (0.28%) PowerShell
8 1 (0.28%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 198 (55.46%) Degree
2 23 (6.44%) Computer Science Degree
3 16 (4.48%) BPSS Clearance
4 9 (2.52%) Cisco Certification
5 8 (2.24%) Azure Certification
5 8 (2.24%) PMI Certification
5 8 (2.24%) PMP
6 7 (1.96%) NVQ Level 3
6 7 (1.96%) NVQ Level 4
6 7 (1.96%) Security Cleared
7 6 (1.68%) CCNP
8 5 (1.40%) SC Cleared
9 4 (1.12%) AWS Certification
9 4 (1.12%) CCIE
9 4 (1.12%) CISM
9 4 (1.12%) CISSP
10 3 (0.84%) (ISC)2 CCSP
10 3 (0.84%) CCSP
10 3 (0.84%) Numerate Degree
10 3 (0.84%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (2.52%) QA
2 6 (1.68%) GRC
2 6 (1.68%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 6 (1.68%) SLA
3 5 (1.40%) GDPR
3 5 (1.40%) PMO
4 4 (1.12%) NIST
5 3 (0.84%) Accessibility
6 2 (0.56%) Cyber Essentials
6 2 (0.56%) ISO 9001
7 1 (0.28%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 1 (0.28%) ISO 13485
7 1 (0.28%) ISO 20022
7 1 (0.28%) ISO 8583
7 1 (0.28%) JTAG
System Software
1 6 (1.68%) Docker
2 5 (1.40%) VMware Infrastructure
3 4 (1.12%) Active Directory
4 2 (0.56%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 4 (1.12%) Terraform
2 3 (0.84%) Kubernetes
2 3 (0.84%) Microsoft Intune
3 2 (0.56%) Ansible
4 1 (0.28%) FortiGate
4 1 (0.28%) PingFederate
Vendors
1 28 (7.84%) Microsoft
2 13 (3.64%) Cisco
3 8 (2.24%) Salesforce
3 8 (2.24%) ServiceNow
4 6 (1.68%) Meraki
4 6 (1.68%) Oracle
5 5 (1.40%) VMware
6 3 (0.84%) Autodesk
6 3 (0.84%) Google
6 3 (0.84%) IBM
7 2 (0.56%) BMC
7 2 (0.56%) Broadcom
7 2 (0.56%) Fortinet
7 2 (0.56%) HP
7 2 (0.56%) PeopleSoft
7 2 (0.56%) Red Hat
7 2 (0.56%) SAP
8 1 (0.28%) ForgeRock
8 1 (0.28%) Palo Alto
8 1 (0.28%) Ping Identity